Everything people blame him for is basically what you would get from an average leader of the liberal party.
Exactly. He’s a hypocrite, and drove a wedge through this country that won’t heal for a long time.
The man campaigned on the environment and then literally bought a pipeline to shield fossil fuel companies from financial risk.
He later further subsidised the fossil fuel industry by sending the RCMP, armed like soldiers onto native land to evict people from their homes, literally hacking through their front doors with axes, all to clear the way for a pipeline.
He wouldn’t shut up about how progressive and welcoming Canada is, but the quotas for refugees from desperate countries remained tiny compared to other nations a fraction of our size.
He lied about electoral reform, and when the working group returned with the answer he didn’t like, threw out the whole process.
During the pandemic he made a lot of (necessary) political decisions to limit freedoms, but refused to acknowledge the way those reforms affected affected Canadians differently. When the poorer classes reacted to these limits in massive popular protest, he labeled them racists and Nazis rather than acknowledging their plight and offering better support. He also made a lot of objectively idiotic decisions, like locking down the country while allowing international flights and blocking driving across the US border.
He made a big song and dance about how Canada wouldn’t sell arms to Israel due to their genocide campaign, then started shipping those arms to Israel via the US instead.
Finally, on his way out the door, as one of his final acts as PM, he gets behind a mic and declares himself a Zionist.
All of this is about what he did. When a much longer list could be written about what he didn’t do over a ten year term as the most powerful man in the country. He neglected critical portfolios like the environment, housing, infrastructure, and poverty while simultaneously devaluing the currency and allowing greedflation to balloon.
In other words, he did the classic Liberal thing of campaigning on what the country needs, and then doing the opposite or nothing at all.
As an expat, I’m glad to see the back of him. The man wrapped himself in the good reputation of my country and then sullied it. Canada is worse off now than it was in 2015 and zero progress has been made on the critical issues of our time.
Exactly. He’s a hypocrite, and drove a wedge through this country that won’t heal for a long time.
All of this is about what he did. When a much longer list could be written about what he didn’t do over a ten year term as the most powerful man in the country. He neglected critical portfolios like the environment, housing, infrastructure, and poverty while simultaneously devaluing the currency and allowing greedflation to balloon.
In other words, he did the classic Liberal thing of campaigning on what the country needs, and then doing the opposite or nothing at all.
As an expat, I’m glad to see the back of him. The man wrapped himself in the good reputation of my country and then sullied it. Canada is worse off now than it was in 2015 and zero progress has been made on the critical issues of our time.